Car damage caused by potholes

I ride a yamaha yzf r6 and the other day I was riding through the town of tenbury wells in worcestershire and hit a long line of potholes, the shock of this incident has caused the front headlight mounting bracket to snap now causing me more money, Would like to see something done to these roads because its starting to make me wonder where the raod tax does go???????

I got an economical car due to the ever rising fuel costs (Fiat Panda) however due to the state of the roads its these small and cheap cars that will suffer. I should have bought a Land rover 4x4. The government is having a laugh, asking everyone to get Eco cars when there is not a suitable road surface to drive them on. I for one will not be a labour or tory supported this year!

my car was damaged on springfield roads costing me $7000 in frontend work including trans,axls,iner and outer tie rods.lower control arm.steerin rack,front wheel bearings.broaking rims. and struts.and numeris flat tiers. just payed brake king $3,000 because a pothole damaged my axl were the axl broak in the transmition were I had to buy a new transmition.i thank I should get rsinburse for my car.im not asking for the hole $7,000 at lease $2,000 its not fair that we have to suffer for the state problems not doing there work and spend money to fix what there potholes broake when they domand us to pay a bill we pay it.so why we can't we get payed for somethang thats tere falt and not owersif we damage somethang of the state.they would be on ower buts so why we cant get payed the same way.its only fair please text me on what I can do about this matter (413)273 - 3065 or e-mail me at anthanicrowley@gaw.com or anthani.crowley@yahoo.com.

It has been said on the news today that the UK has a £10 billion backlog of potholes to repair on our roads, I am pretty sure that they collect at least £40 billion a year from the motorist, what are they spending this £40 billion on?

I managed a great one today, it was a dark lane, raining and I was doing 30mph (national limit road) allowing for poor roads, when I hit a pothole bursting my nearside front tyre, setting off a nearside seat airbag, filling the car with dust and almost putting me in a ditch, yes, I am annoyed and now how much hassle this is going to cause me but I will be making the council pay for damages, and will take this as far as I need to, to get it sorted. I will try to keep you updated as to how it goes.

I hit a pot hole 2 months ago causing £450 worth of damage to my car and only just had a response from the council to say it was not caused by negligence of the council which is disgusting, also they totally fabricated the dates it was repaired and inspected etc. Quite simply the council are CROOKS!

Good luck with that one, there's potholes all over the roads thanks to the recent weather. Apparently it costs £100 a shot to repair them.

Ran over a pothole in Staines last night punctured tyre possible suspension and other steering problems, have taken loads of pictures and even taken pictures of the state of the entire road. Going to claim against the Council at the end of the day its there responsibility so just stay clam and start writing letters, emails and making phone calls log everything and hopefully they will reimburse all costs I will now have to put my car back to perfect condition!

I damaged an alloy wheel on a pothole on my way home from work last december, when I hit the pothole it nearly wrenched the steering wheel out of my hands and punctured my tyre. due to it being a very dark country lane I couldn't stop to change the wheel and had to crawl the last mile and a half home at 10mph. I went back there the next day and was horrified to see how large this hole was (about 2 feet long and 1 foot wide) and was full to the top of rainwater so looked like a large puddle. The maintenance dept had acually marked the area out for repair and I took photo's of the pothole and my damaged wheel on my mobile and contacted the council. they sent me a form to fill in which I promptly did and attached print offs of the photo's. after 3 months!!!!! they finally replied to me refuting the claim stating if I wished to take it further then I'd have to seek legal advice. needless to say I was furious and popped round to see my local councillor, did I hear anything back? did I boat? leaving me £330 out of pocket and a strong willingness to exercise my disgust through the ballot box.

I just hit an open man hole earlier today. Its put massive dents in the two passenger side wheels which will have to be replaced. I phoned the local council and reported it, they said they already knew about it. so I then called the police and within half an hour there was a police car there putting cones around it. Just wondering if anyone has had any luck in getting the local council to pay for repairs from anything like this? There was 3 or 4 other cars who hit it as well and damaged their wheels. Earlier this year I rode all the way up Vietnam on a motorbike and their roads are better than ours!

Yesterday I ran over an open man hole cover that was opened and buried in about 3CM of rain water , turning right into a side road I feel a massive bang that shook the car and almost yanked the wheel out of my hand, its damaged my wheel which I now have to replace , they only replaced the man hole cover today so I havnt got a leg to stand on, I speak for us all when I say road tax should be use on the roads we drive on for safety and comfort, as britains roads are just pathetic!

last night I drove over a large pothole and puntured my front left tire. I then had to get the emergancy tire out and have not yet had the chance to change it. the car is very dangerous to drive over the wet damp leaves and puddles and I do not feel safe driving my children to school. somthing should be donw about theses potholes before something worse happens >:C